Legislation
General
Information & Communication
Employment
Definitions
100
In 2005, the Ontario government passed this to make Ontario accessible by 2025.
What is AODA or the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act?
100
Two (2) of the five General Legislative standards.
What is procuring or acquiring goods; services or facilities; self-service kiosks; training and accessibility policies and plans?
100
This standard establishes processes that businesses and organizations in Ontario must follow to create, provide, and receive information and communications in formats that are this.
What is accessible or made accessible by request?
100
These two (2) legislative requirements address job opportunities.
What is making the recruitment process accessible, and informing employees of accessible formats and communication supports?
100
Rules that businesses and organizations in Ontario need to follow to identify, remove and prevent barriers so that people with disabilities have more opportunities to participate in everyday life.
What are Integrated Accessibility Standards?
200
These three (3) Integrated Accessibility Standards (IASR) apply to the agency.
What are General Legislative Requirements, Information & Communication, and Employment?
200
Two (2) of the four potential accessibility barriers.
What is Information/Communication, Attitudinal, Technological and Policy or Practice?
200
May include availability of large print, information written in plain language, text transcripts or screen reader.
What are alternate formats and communication supports?
200
These three (3) actions are to be accommodated into accessible recruitment practices.
What is posting vacancies, invitation for interview and offering a position?
200
A long range document, which is reviewed annually, outlining the agency's strategy to prevent and remove barriers and meet the requirements under Accessibility Policies and Plans Standard.
What is the Multi-Year Accessibility Plan (MYAP)?
300
This legislation requires organizations to accommodate people with disabilities to the point of undue hardship.
What is the Ontario Human Rights Code (OHRC)?
300
These accessibility features must be incorporated where practicable for procuring or acquiring goods, services or facilities, and self-service kiosks.
What are technical (software) and structural (physical design) features?"
300
The information & Communication Standard is applied to formats and supports for accessibility to these agency commodities.
What are the agency's products and services?
300
Workplace Emergency Response Information is provided when this is done.
What is when an employee with a self identified disability requests and requires assistance to evacuate the building?
300
Accessible websites and web content parameters to follow according to the World Wide Web Consortium.
What are Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0?
400
These orgainzations must apply the AODA compliance framework.
What are public, private and not-for-profit organizations?
400
Training must be provided to these individuals on a ongoing basis or when accessibility policies change.
Who are employees and volunteers?
400
This course of action establishes a required pathway for receiving and responding to comments about how the agency provides goods or services to people with disabilities.
What is a customer service feedback process?
400
These two (2) documents may be used to help coordinate an employee's accommodation at the workplace.
What is Documented Individual Accommodation Plan and Return to Work Process?
400
A plan developed by HR, in consultation with the employee, to determine a course of action in the event of an emergency.
What is Workplace Emergency Response Information?
500
Establishes the compliance framework, applies to all public, private and not-for-profit organizations and rules that businesses and organizations in Ontario need to follow to identify, remove and prevent barriers.
What is the purpose of the AODA Regulation?
500
Accessibility policies and plans comply with these three (3) specific actions.
What is documentation; public availability in an accessible format on request; a statement of the agency's commitment to accessibility?
500
Preparing for, identifying and communicating potential accessibility hurdles positively influences these.
What is reduction of barriers and increased client satisfaction?
500
Two (2) of the four key points to consider when developing an individual accommodation plan.
What is employee participation, employee ability to seek outside medical advice or other expert evaluation, privacy protection, and timelines for plan review?
500
This document must be completed and submitted to Communications when the employee is unable to deliver the accessible format on his or her own.
What is an Accessibility brief?
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